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Jackie joins a sick bay roster which has now swelled to six key players. Bryan Cook (jaw), Paul Yeomalakis (thumb), Bobby McDonald (elbow), Murray Dea (knee), and Gene Purdy (shoulder) are the other players currently out of action, and Purdy, who was supposed to be a definite starter against Northeastern tonight, is now doubtful...
...will not be the same Harvard team taking the ice tonight against the Eagles, physically or mentally. Injuries have hit the Crimson hard the last five games and the sick bay roster has swelled to five with the recent addition of forward Murray Dea, who will be sidelined for a few weeks with knee problems sustained in Saturday's Brown game...
Travolta plays Tony Manero, king of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...
...movie were only the dancing, interspersed with a few shots of Tony Manero at work or at home, it would fail miserably. Luckily, the film goes much deeper than that. The central dynamic in the film is the increasing tension between Tony and his Bay Ridge world. Tony is growing up, moving apart from this Italian ghetto. And that growth is immeasurably accelerated by Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney), another Bay Ridge dancer whom Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works...
Fortunately, the development of Tony's character is handled better, but it still leaves something to be desired. Though at first Tony seems to be just another Bay Ridge stiff--"nowhere, on his way to no place," as Stephanie puts it--the audience soon realizes he is different, more aware of his motives and desires. The high he gets from dancing is transitory. He wants that same feeling to come from other parts of his life, which is empty but for the disco dancing. He comes to view his life as unsatisfying and unhealthy, especially when several events occur...